Ph.D. (Nursing)

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Subjects of Study

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Nursing leadership in Health Care delivery system

A. Current health issues and policies 

1. Analysis of current health problems–national & global
2. A health care delivery system in India
3. National health policy, population policy and alternative systems of medicine
4. Health policy issues relevant to nursing practice–Development of nursing services in health policy
5. The functions and roles of law in health care delivery–Existing legislations related to nursing. Laws for new and emerging roles (e.g.) Nurse practitioner, private practice (nursing homes)
6. Social system and health policy
7. Politics & health policy–Lobbying for development of the nursing profession
8. Health economics and health policy (Economics of health care and nursing)
9. Health insurance

B. Nursing Leadership 

1. Leadership theories
2. Nursing leadership and decision making
3. Nursing leadership and change process
4. Human resource planning and management by nurse leaders
5. Profession building in health care system–Advocacy, Lobbying
6. Nursing ethics-Code of ethics, professional conduct for nurses in India-Nursing standards, nursing practice, standards and quality assurance
7. Human relations-Valuing human being
8. Communication skills

C. Nursing informatics 

- Nursing management information system, Networking institutions through a literature search.
- Nursing Universities, Internet, Literature search
- Knowledge of basic computers–Review
                                                                           Or
1. Overview of Computers and Nursing
2. Computer Systems-Data processing, the internet, a nursing resource
3. Nursing Informatics and health care policy, privacy, confidentiality and security
4. Nursing informatics theory, clinical information systems
5. Applications-Practice applications, Administrative application (information technology for nursing managers), educational applications and Research applications.
6. Consumer use of informatics
7. The future of informatics

II

Philosophy of Nursing Science and Theoretical Perspectives

1. Introduction to the course, a study of philosophy, History of philosophy
2. History and philosophy of nursing science
3. Nursing as a science and a discipline (Evolution and development)
4. Nursing knowledge and development
- Historical roots
- Domains of nursing
- Paradigms in nursing
- Knowledge development
5. Paradigms that influence approaches to nursing science development.
6. Epistemological and ontological assumptions of diverse approaches to knowledge generation in nursing.

III

Nursing Theories and Theory Development

A. Epistemology

• Concepts, statements and theories
• Strategies for theory development
• Evaluation of theories
• Metatheory

B. Overview of theory in nursing

• Overview of theory
• Importance of theory in nursing
• Historical overview
• Classification of theories in nursing
• Issues in theory development in Nursing
• Nursing Theory: an examination of the concept development of nursing theory.

C. Overview of nursing theories

The theorists and the theories
• On nursing clients
• On human being-Environment interactions
• On interactions
• On nursing therapeutics
• Other theories

D. Analysis of Nursing theories & evaluation of nursing theories-
E. Nursing theory and practice
F. Nursing theory and research
G. Interrelationships between science, theory, practice and research in Nursing.

Research Methodology and Applied Statistics

I

Introduction: Methods of acquiring knowledge problem solving and the scientific method. Research–definition types characteristics Terminology used in research, purpose, scope and of research. Research and Nursing: Purpose scope and need for Nursing Research, development of research in Nursing, areas of Nursing research.

II

Research process overview: Statement of the problem and research objectives, concepts and constructs, variables assumptions, definitions hypotheses formulation and types Delimitation.

III

Review of related literature Needs purpose and sources: Library,-On-line search, and retrieval of the database from different CD-ROMs and use of A.V. Aids.

IV

Research approaches and Designs:
• Historical approaches
• Survey and experimental approaches,
• Qualitative research approaches, ethnography and phenomenology.
• Longitudinal, cross-sectional and cohort studies-advantages and disadvantages.
• Experimental designs-Purposes, characteristics, types of design, pre-experimental and quasi and true implemented design, steps of an experimental research
• Sampling Methods-size, criteria of Population, Techniques of sampling criteria, determination of sample size
• Data collection-Tools and techniques, types, purposes, characteristics and uses.
• Scale/Construction of tools-Selection/Construction of tools, Testing validity and reliability.
• Techniques of data collection: Technique, tools used for qualitative research, observation, Focus group discussion, measurement and record analysis and field trips.

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Data collection procedures, analysis & interpretation and data management.

VI

Ethical considerations in Nursing Research:
– General considerations–Ethical considerations specific to approaches, design and data collection procedures.
– Ethics Committee 
– composition, role and importance
– Guidelines for ethical clearness
– Ethical issues the relation to scientific and professional community (Plagiarism)

VII

Qualitative and quantitative analysis:
– Descriptive, inferential and advance statistics
– Parametric and Non-parametric methods
– Multivariate analysis

VIII

Communicating research findings

– Research critic
– Project proposal for funding
– Research utilization